Phonological Short-Term Memory: When Bilingualism Matters.
Non-word repetition tasks are widely used to assess phonological short-term memory (PSTM). Results of previous research on the performance of monolingual and bilingual children in PSTM tasks are inconclusive. Although in some studies bilinguals did outperform monolinguals in the repetition of non-wo...
| Publicado en: | Language Learning & Development Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 34 - 49 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=161210960&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 161210960 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 15475441 W44 jtl: Language Learning & Development issn: 15475441 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Jan-Mar2023 vid: 19 iid: 1 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 161210960 10.1080/15475441.2021.2014846 ppf: 34 ppct: 15 formats: tig: atl: Phonological Short-Term Memory: When Bilingualism Matters. aug: au: Zaretsky, Eugen Lange, Benjamin P. Hey, Christiane affil: Department of Phoniatrics and Paediatric Audiology, Marburg University Hospital, Marburg, Germany Department of Social Sciences, IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany Department of Media Psychology, Julius Maximilian University, Wuerzburg, Germany su: Germany Multilingualism Task performance Phonetics Statistics Phonological awareness Speech evaluation Mann Whitney U Test Questionnaires Descriptive statistics Chi-squared test Short-term memory in children Data analysis sug: subj: Multilingualism Task performance Phonetics Germany Statistics Phonological awareness Speech evaluation Mann Whitney U Test Questionnaires Descriptive statistics Chi-squared test Short-term memory in children Data analysis ab: Non-word repetition tasks are widely used to assess phonological short-term memory (PSTM). Results of previous research on the performance of monolingual and bilingual children in PSTM tasks are inconclusive. Although in some studies bilinguals did outperform monolinguals in the repetition of non-words, most studies reported comparatively weak results of bilingual children, especially when they were tested in their L2. In this study, four-year-old monolingual and bilingual children acquiring German (N = 1,441) were tested with both German-based (GBNW) and quasi-universal non-words (QUNW). It was hypothesized that bilinguals would outperform monolinguals both in (a) GBNW under the condition of comparable German language skills and (b) QUNW without any preconditions because QUNW do not presuppose a good command of German. Bilinguals yielded significantly lower results in GBNW, but not in QUNW. After the exclusion of children with limited German language skills from both groups, bilinguals outperformed monolinguals in both tasks, especially in QUNW. It can be assumed that bilingualism puts higher demands on PSTM than monolingualism and thus contributes to its faster development. Unnecessary medical examinations and therapies that are sometimes prescribed to bilinguals due to a poor performance in German-based PSTM tasks can be avoided if QUNW are used instead of language-specific items. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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